Off topic Re: Deer "problem"
- To: Mediterranean Plants <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: Off topic Re: Deer "problem"
- From: B* K* <r*@ksu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:57:00 -0600 (CST)
> Isn't anyone > interested in coexisting/gardening peacefully with deer?
> A lot of native > plants manage to do it.
>
The day I have a garden the size of the one either your or my native
plants enjoy, and the leisure to stroll through all the far-flung unravaged
portions of it, the deer can have their way with it.
No use for genuine barking dogs, sorry - but I have been known to suggest
in class papers that there might be some value in detector-triggered strobe
lights and speakers spewing a high-decibel hell-brew of ultrasonics, gun-
shots, wolfpacks, Ted Nugent tracks, etc. - together with a single invisible
strand of servo-tensioned high-tensile wire at either leg or neck height and
well along their accustomed exit route.
All hopefully affording at least as much vulgar pleasure to the vast
majority of momentary human witnesses as they do aesthetic offense to the
overblown swarms we are sending to test the next person's personal
"deer-proof" plant list.
